Chapter Nine
Fifty-two-year-old Winifred Johnson never entered the lobby of her employer's
apartment building on Park Avenue without feeling intimidated. She had worked
with Adam Cauliff for three years, first at Walters and Arsdale, and then she
had left with him last fall, when he started his own company. He relied on her
from the beginning.
Even so, whenever she stopped by his apartment, she couldn't help feeling that
one day the doorman would instruct her to use the delivery entrance around the
corner.
She knew that her attitude was the result of her parents' lifelong resentment
over imagined slights. Ever since she could remember, Winifred's ears had been
filled with their plaintive tales of people who had been rude to them: They
use their little bit of authority on people like us who can't fight back. Expect
it, Winifred. That's the kind of world it is. Her father ha ... read full excerpt from Before I Say Good Bye ebook
